Franz Kafka

A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us.

books


Franz Kafka

My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

best


Franz Kafka

The experience of life consists of the experience which the spirit has of itself in matter and as matter, in mind and as mind, in emotion, as emotion, etc.

experience


Franz Kafka

My 'fear' is my substance, and probably the best part of me.

fear


Franz Kafka

God gives the nuts, but he does not crack them.

god


Franz Kafka

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

happiness


Franz Kafka

The history of mankind is the instant between two strides taken by a traveler.

history


Franz Kafka

Don Quixote's misfortune is not his imagination, but Sancho Panza.

imagination


Franz Kafka

We are sinful not only because we have eaten of the Tree of Knowledge, but also because we have not yet eaten of the Tree of Life. The state in which we are is sinful, irrespective of guilt.

knowledge


Franz Kafka

How pathetically scanty my self-knowledge is compared with, say, my knowledge of my room. There is no such thing as observation of the inner world, as there is of the outer world.

knowledge


Franz Kafka

Woman, or more precisely put, perhaps, marriage, is the representative of life with which you are meant to come to terms.

marriage


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